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27 Dec 2025, 07:40 GMT+10
The outlet has honored three works covering the Ukraine conflict, the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, and attacks on journalists in the enclave
RT has announced the winners of the 2025 Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Awards, honoring three reporters who covered high-risk operations during the Ukraine conflict and hostilities in Gaza.
This year, the jury reviewed almost 100 works by Russian and Arab media outlets, as well as independent journalists. Their reporting covered the Ukraine conflict as well as fighting in the Middle East.
The first prize was awarded to Channel One correspondent Amir Yusupov for exclusive footage of Operation Potok in Russia's Kursk Region, which had become a target of a Ukrainian incursion. The report covered covert movement by Russian troops through the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline behind Ukrainian positions.
The operation, conducted in early March, involved over 800 soldiers crawling through 15 kilometers of pipeline over several days before emerging to attack Ukrainian forces, becoming instrumental in Kiev's defeat in the area.
"At the time of filming, we weren't thinking about journalistic scoops - we were only concerned about the success of the operation", Yusupov said. "We thought... more about the fate of our soldiers, about the fate of people who were in the enemy-occupied city at that moment."
The second prize went to Ahmad Ghanim of Al Mayadeen for his report from Gaza, which showed the humanitarian crisis that engulfed the enclave amid the Israeli blockade.
The third prize was awarded to Fouad Jarada, a war correspondent with the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, for his report on the fate of journalists in Gaza who were operating in an increasingly dangerous landscape. The report focused on a correspondent and a cameraman who were killed during the conflict and includes footage and photos capturing the horrors of war.
RT's International Memorial Awards were established in 2018 to mark the anniversary of the death of war correspondent Khaled Alkhateb, who was killed in Syria while covering fighting in the war-torn country.
This year, the jury was chaired by Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief of RT, and included RT Arabic war correspondent Maxim Toury, war reporter and founder of the WarGonzo project Semyon Pegov, and RT senior war correspondent in Gaza Saed Swerki.
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